On March 31, 2026, two federal judges issued very different rulings in two major church-state cases. Even though the cases involved different issues and were decided in different ways, both outcomes favored keeping important boundaries and church and state separation in place.
In Arkansas, a judge ordered the state to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the State Capitol grounds. In Texas, another judge refused to approve a proposed resolution in a case challenging the Johnson Amendment, the federal tax rule that restricts political campaign activity by churches and other tax-exempt nonprofits.
